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Three Ways Data Science is Changing Monitoring and Evaluation
Three Ways Data Science is Changing Monitoring and EvaluationAs a Data Scientist working in the context of monitoring and evaluation in the international development industry, I get…
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Are We Learning From Evaluations?
I recently returned from Kampala where I attended the third annual Uganda Evaluation Week. This year’s theme was “Quality Evaluations for Accountable Service Delivery.” Laura…
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ResilienceLinks: A New Knowledge Platform for Global Resilience
Resilience – the ability to manage through crisis without compromising future wellbeing – is increasingly recognized as an essential part of global development. Droughts, flooding,…
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Evaluation for Learning and Adaptive Management: Connecting the Dots between Developmental Evaluation and CLA
Since Headlight’s inception in 2019, we have honed our expertise in a few practice areas, including Developmental Evaluation (DE) and Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA)…
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You’ve come a long way, evaluations!
On March 30, 2016, my colleagues and I participated in an event to mark five years since the release of the USAID Evaluation Policy. USAID released a report at the event taking…
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EvalPartners share International Year of Evaluation updates, insights on USAID partnerships with local evaluators
On June 25, USAID's Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning Office of Learning, Evaluation and Research (PPL/LER) hosted a morning coffee break and conversation with four global…
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Sustaining Development: Results from an Ex-Post Evaluation Among Food for Peace Development Food Assistance Projects
USAID's Office of Food for Peace (FFP), Local Systems Community, and the Evaluation Interest Group (EIG) hosted a presentation of key findings and recommendations from the FFP…
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Learning from Evaluations
Understanding the importance of evaluations to learn about development effectiveness is critical to USAID and its partners as it promotes learning and adapting across the agency…
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Knowledge Value Chain© Approach to Evaluation Utilization
The Knowledge Value Chain©, by Timothy W. Powell can be an effective approach toward building a culture of using evaluations. I decided to introduce the Knowledge Value Chain© in a…
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At what point in the future do we evaluate program success?
This blog was orginally published by Feedback Labs on July 1, 2015. Click here to read it at Feedbacklabs.org.We want to know if our social programs are working. But when, really,…